Title - Late Night at the Zoo Author: Mackinnon, Mairi Publisher: Dallas Morning News Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Parents and children take turns to read from the page and as the books progress in the series the adults read less and less and the child more and more. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 105 1.3 140 Amazon RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels Sentences Total Words Different Words Max Word/Sent 11 Total # of Words 114 # of Different Words 68 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 58 50.9% # of Hi freq words 23 33.8% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 1 0.9% # of Low freq words 1 1.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Features Rhyming Present Tense Topics Actions *Animals Animals: Zoo Low Frequency Words trapeze